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Welcome back to chaos on TV from Hala, the next stock will be a treat by Nook's Nic. Welcome to SPV and just a quick content warning. We will do a little demo flight at the end and that'll contain flashing lights and like seasickness, risks, I guess from time to time on social media, you'll see a drone. VIDEO That's not your typical wide panoramic shot. Chances are, if it's fast flying in tight spaces that this is SPV flying. The pilots combine electronics, tinkering with lots of open source software and nooks. Nick will give us an introduction on how you can be as cool as him. Go ahead! OK. Welcome to 5G. I don't know if I'm that cool, but I appreciate it. The awesome introduction. OK. I am very excited to be here and to be talking to you about a topic I am very passionate about. This is an introduction level presentation with a whole slew of information. So but let's get started. But before then, here's a quick word from our sponsor. My name is Seth Fleming, also known by my online pseudonym Nook's Nick. You can see it in the IPA transcription there on the right. I am a freelance software developer and a private consultant. Here are some of the things I do in my free time, I like to reverse engineer hardware. I am, I do electronics, repair woodworking. I like to build furniture. I play music, anything from country to death metal. And I'm an amateur radio operator. I also have my own little corner of the interwebs at next Nikam, where I write about various things that interests me or projects I'm working on as far as contacting me. The best way is through good old fashioned email at next week. Well, next Nick at next Nikam. OK. There's a disclaimer before I get started, although I do consider myself fairly knowledgeable on the subject. I am making no assumptions to know everything about the multi rotors. Some of the information will be I will be presenting is solely based on my personal opinion and personal experience. So seriously, don't tase me, bro. If I say som
ething that you don't agree with. The point of this talk, as I said, is to introduce you to the fast paced world of multi copters and give you a brief view into the hardware and software that goes into building, configuring and flying SPV drones. OK, now with all that out of the way, let's talk some drones. So some of you may have the question, what the hell is F-5? Well, F5 is an acronym, which means first person view. It refers to the technology not so much the method used in piloting remote controlled vehicles. In a nutshell, an SPV controlled vehicle has a camera mounted on it. This camera is wired wirelessly transmits a video signal, which is received by the pilot and viewed in a remote monitor. The pilot controls the vehicle with a wireless transmitter and can steer the craft based on real time information of the video signal. It's not a line of sight. OK. This technology can be used and piloting any variety of vehicles, for example, airplanes, cars, boats and even submarines. Any kind of vehicle you can think of as long as you can put a camera on it. However, one of the most common implementations is in conjunction with drones. In more recent years, the term P.V. refers specifically more and more to quadcopters. In other words, it is more commonly understood that when someone refers to SPV, they are referring to FP v drones. But that said, when I use the term SPV in the presentation, I will be referring to SPV drones, specifically their components and the discipline of piloting them. So in general, the technologies and disciplines that go into SPV as a as a whole are immersive and multifaceted, and we'll get into that. Here are I will be showing an incomplete list of some of the different skills, technologies and disciplines of SPV, and I'm sure this audience will at least have one or two things that they can definitely that they have experience in. So one is general electronics. In the context of SPV, you will be soldering a lot when building your own quads.
 You will be soldering components, wires and modules together as a caveat. Well, it's not really a caveat. You don't have to have an electrical engineering degree in order to have fun and SPV only a very basic understanding is required. The amount of immersion in electronics really depends on your interest. So in other words, you can delve as deep as you want into the electronic aspects of SPV and stay inside your comfort zone. Another aspect you can delve into is radio and wireless technologies, this is something that interests me as a ham radio or amateur radio operator. AP Drones are controlled wires wirelessly, which means you can delve into the world of radio propagation if that floats your boat. You can get into DIY antennas, receivers, transmitters. There are a lot of people in the community who make their own antennas, and as you see here in this video, I believe it's Joshua Bardwell. He is analyzing a 5.8 megahertz video signal and a spectrum analyzer. Also, you can get into software. There's and there's lots of software to be had in the brains of these drones are controlled by software, and I got good news this software is open source. This means you can freely download, modify and prove and share the source code used in your very own quads. You can compile your own source code and flash them to your drones. And here, I believe, yes, that is a video clip where I am messing with the beta flight source code. I was changing some of the strings to say funny things like Ninja Flip and things like that. So and one another discipline is 3D printing, having a 3D printer is invaluable as an 5-year. You will find yourself designing various mounts, skids, camera holders, antenna mounts, protective shields, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. As we all know, the internet is full of objects freely available and ready to print. So what is required in effigy? As I mentioned before, you don't have to have a degree in aerospace engineering in order to build and fly
 off the quads. All you need is a willingness and a willingness to learn and later down the road. The only required skill is to be able to solder, especially if you plan on building your own. Quite so, it's a learned skill. It comes pretty quickly, actually. All the same. Having a deep understanding of electronics, radio, propagation software and 3-D printing are not required, but it plus. So I can tell you my personal opinion, what I get out of FBD personally, I enjoy it because I can build electronic projects, projects that deal with wireless technologies go out and actually fly them. It's very practical. I'm not worried when I crash or break something because I look forward to fixing what was broken and sometimes doing upgrades when the parts have finally bit the dust and the end. 50 percent of the enjoyment I get of get out of SPV is, I guess the best way to say is in German does Bastien bastion is kind of like creating something, something with your hands or tinkering. So that's 50 percent of the fun for me, and the other 50 percent is the flying aspect. Flying is a hell of a lot of fun. So and for you, you can have your own personal taste. Some people care more about the flying. Some people like more of the technical stuff. So the sky's the limit. So what is in that TV drum, so we've talked about what is SPV, but what is an SPV drone? What is it components to better understand the hardware that goes into making a drone? Think of it the same way as the hardware of a computer, just as a parallel. The standard components of a computer are a motherboard, a hard drive, RAM, CPU, PSU, etc. These components, when connected together, form the computer as a single unit. The components of a computer communicate with standardized protocols. These same concepts apply to the world of drone hardware, albeit the components of a drone are not the same as those of a computer. To further further illustrate this point, when you know how the individual parts of a computer work ha
rd drive, RAM, CPU, et cetera, you know how to build the perfect computer, which best fulfills your needs. This same concept applies to selecting the hardware components of a drone in order to design your perfect drone. You will need to understand its components. So in order to understand the components, we're going to talk about flight controllers, motors, X receivers, MPV cameras, vortexes, et cetera. Though the terms might sound a little foreign, but hopefully at the end of this presentation, you'll have a good idea on how they function. OK, let's get to the first component, which is the flight controller or, in short, the AFC. It is the brain of the drone. It is outfitted with various sensors and communication ports. Some of the sensors include gyroscopes, accelerometers, volt meters, etc. These sensors help the drones sensors position and adjust its flight characteristics. As already mentioned, the flight controller offers communication ports, and these ports can be connected to external modules and sensors. The details of how a flight controller work are kind of beyond the scope of this presentation. So in summary, just try to take with you. The flight controller is where everything happens. If something goes wrong here, then the system will crash and your drone will definitely crash. OK, let's talk about electronic speed controllers, otherwise known as an. I'll get into a technical version of how they work and then try to put it in layman's version. They convert a P.W. pulse width modulation signal from the flight controller into a three phase AC current, which used is used to drive the motors. The frequency of this current depends determines the speed and force at which the motors are driven. So in the end, a lower amplitude or a smaller signal from the flight controller drives the four motors of the drone and the SC translate those signals into a different three phase electronic current, which drives the motors in the end. There are some flight controllers 
known as air crew or all in one boards, which have built an X. So as pictured here, this is a single SC. A lot of these components can be built onto one. One Flight Controller Board. OK, motors. Of course, we have to have motors or the thing won't fly. So motors are the engine that keeps it quiet flying and modern quadcopters. Brushless electro electromagnetic motors are most commonly used. These motors are driven by a three phase alternating current, as we discussed, which is provided by the chassis. And here's a quick note for the presentation aimed specifically specifically referring to quadcopters, which have four motors. However, five drones are not limited to four motors. Sometimes you can find configurations in three, six, eight and even more. The more motors, the more weight you can carry. So there's different characteristics depending on what you want to build. OK. And in order to receive the signals from the pilots, the drone needs to know what to do. And in order to receive those signals, you need a receiver. And that's exactly what a receiver does receive signals and communicates the desired flight direction to the flight controller. The flight controller, in turn, takes these signals, does some calculations and sends a signal to the ISS, as we talked about. So the receiver can be a separate module, as shown here. This is a TBS team, black sheep nano receiver. It's very, very small. You can see one point eight millimeters or when I can't see it from here doesn't matter. It's small. It's about this big, OK. It can be built into the flight controller also. OK, and the camera, which pretty much defines the term. This camera sends a video signal to the flight controller and the flight controller takes the signal and will process it a bit and add an on screen display. So it just films what is in front of it. It'll process the signal through the flight controller and the flight controller will overlay and OSD, which is called an on screen display. We'll see th
at in the demo later when we fly around the studio here. And yeah, and that signal can or this onscreen display can show your battery level, your speed, your altitude. If you have a GPS module, it can show you the GPS coordinates, flight time, etc. and then the signal gets pooped out to the vortex. So what the hell is the vortex? I'll tell you what it is. The vortex receives the video signal from the flight controller. It modulates, amplifies and transmits a video signal so that the pilot can view it in his F5. His or her have Peavey goggles. OK, now the vortex can also be built in in an all in one flight controller. And we'll get to the antennas, a modern Quad will usually have two antennas, one for receiving control signals from the pilot. You'll see that one on the left hand side. That is an immortal Ti antenna from Team Black Sheep and. One for sorry. In order to steal, steer the craft and another for transmitting the video signal, which is on the right hand side. This is a triumph, I think Tbis triumph. I have one here on the table somewhere. For example, the signals from the pilot can be transmitted on two point four gigahertz or eight hundred sixty eight gigahertz. And the intended to the left to receive those signals, and the band for video signals is typically five point eight gigahertz. So it's a little higher. Now we'll talk about the frame, one component that binds all these components into one unit and gives us his form is the frame. This is commonly made of robust materials such as carbon fiber or hard plastic. Frames come in many shapes and sizes, many of which depend on the flight characteristics desired by the pilots. The frame shown here is a get our CE mark for. I'm rather fond of that one, so I figured I'd show it. I actually have one here on the table, but I'll show you that later. OK? Propellers, they come in many different sizes and shapes. As with other components, selecting the correct propeller depends on the flight requirements, air densit
y, temperature motors and the criteria. Teria for selecting the best propellers can be very complex and really go beyond the scope of this presentation, so you just need to know these things have propellers in there, a core component. So we'll just tie it all together with an overview. As previously discussed, the components in every drone vary and are largely dependent on the flight requirements or the preferences of the person building the drone. So now that we have a general understanding and not a very deep one, but a general understanding of the standard components that make up a modern quad, let's look at some of the software. So we get hardware and now we'll move to software. OK, we have learned that the flight controller is the brain of the drone, but that is pretty much a half truth. The real brain of the drone lies in its software due to the limited time of this presentation to only focus on one software project, namely the beta flight project. Here I'm a better flight fanboy. I even wrote put on my hoodie. Beta flight is a free and open source software suite for flashing and configuring flight controllers. It is its two main components. It's well, there's more components, but the two main components have been beta flight are the flight controller software and the beta flight configure configurator. Let's look at the software first for the flight controller. The flight controller software does just that before when I showed you that clip of the software, that was actually the beta flight software itself is the software, and it is the software that operates and keeps the drone in the air. It communicates with the external modules, reads from the sensors and inputs, and interprets pilot data. It is responsible for controlling the motors and overlaying the OSD or onscreen display, as we talked about before. At its core is a real workhorse of any drone. Listed underneath is the GitHub page. You can download the software for yourself, poke around, have fun and 
try it out yourself. OK, and now we have the beta flight configurator, and it pretty much offers an intuitive and intuitive UI, which we can use to easily configure the drone. So let's delve deeper and look at how it actually works life. I think the best way to see how it works is to see it live in action. So I have your my freestyle quad, my five inch freestyle quad lets connected and look around at some of the things we can configure. So on the side, there is a small USB port. I'll turn around here and I'll switch over to better fight. There we are. Hopefully, you can see it. Could you make it a little larger in the monitor for the front, please? OK, I'll plug it in. If I can figure out where it is. OK, now we are OK and here there's a little delay there, so I'll just. OK, we're going to hit Connect. I would hit Connect. Live demos are always a lot of fun. Always bound to happen. I can't see it in the monitor that, as I say, ACM zero something at the end of that block device. Dev ACM zero. This seems. Interesting. Not working well, that figures. Well, I guess I might have to just give you the lowdown on how it works without showing you, since I can't seem to get it to work here with the beta flight configurator. You can look through and see more easily, I guess. Here I'll turn this so you can see it a little better. Here's the USB port on the side. The specific components that you want to configure. For example, I can configure my transmitter. I configured these the switches of a for my transmitter. I can configure each switch to do a specific thing for the drone to Ahmed. If I flip over, I can go into turtle mode and make it flip over. And there are many things I can change in that software. Also, I can change the video signal. I can change the different new art pads on the flight controller to do different things. For example, if I had a GPS module to the flight controller and I can change the AC and as I said, the OSD, and we'll see that later in the live demo.
 Hopefully the next live demo will work in the OSD onscreen display. We'll see some things, for example, how long the flight was, the name of the craft and many things like that. So that's pretty much what beta flight does. Beta Flight Configurator. So let's move on. I'll unplug this one here. One thing you never want to do is plug in a quad with a full battery indoors with these props because this thing is a flying chainsaw. Never do that. Well, what I did. You don't want to plug in a battery. That's bad news. So we'll keep talking about open source software. And the next thing I want to talk about is, uh, sorry. Yeah, there I am. And the next thing I want to talk about is open. T.X Open is a hardware independent, open source firmware that can be flashed onto your transmitter. This here is a transmitter. I have some gimbal guards here, and it gives you the ability to save different drone profiles on your transmitter and enables communication with external modules. These are external modules in the back that can be extended and they can extend your transmitter. Very interesting devices. I have a few here and we'll go more into detail on those later in the presentation. Just one thing you need to take away with you is that open text is the software used to do that. OK. Let me move down here to the presentation. Can you switch over back to the presentation? I believe. OK, there we are. Overview So we have seen there are many other choices when it comes to the hardware, which runs on most drones. So so far I only have scratched the surface. There are many, many more open source projects, specifically in the flight control area. So do your due diligence, look it up and they're pretty easy to find online. Oh, OK, yeah, that's right. I think I need to do that, right? There we are. All right. Yeah, baby, it's working. OK? Let's move to the next one. OK, we just talked about that. Yes. So do your due diligence. Look up your different open source software projects. There's I
 nav, there's kids. There's many others. So that is up to you. So hopefully I have sparked your interest in getting started in SPV. And with so many options and possibilities, what should we buy? We always want to buy something so good quality equipment can be expensive. I don't advocate buying expensive equipment until you're sure SPV is something you want to invest. Your time and money into. This hobby can get quite expensive. See here on the table. With that in mind, I put together a quick guide to buying SPV gear. It is split into different phases one, two and three, and in each of these phases, you will be acquiring equipment that builds on the equipment that came before it. In other words, you will buy the least amount of equipment required, and in each phase, the new equipment builds on the equipment you bought before. This way, you won't have to go all in and decide later that SPV isn't your thing and be stuck with a bunch of paperweights sitting in the corner. So. And another disclaimer going forward, I will be expressing my own personal opinions regarding SPV equipment. There are some people with very strong opinions about what you should buy and what you shouldn't buy. We all have our own tastes and preferences, so just don't blindly take my word for it and say, Oh, he said, you should buy that, so I'm going to buy it now. Look it up yourself. Unfortunately, there's no one size fits all solution to getting equipment, so you have to find the equipment that's right for you. OK, so I've set up a shopping cart for you, and this is phase one. No. So you've listened to the talk and it sparked your interest and you say to yourself, Yeah, that sounds like something I want to get into the school. So phase one is the least expensive step you will be getting into. You only be getting your feet wet and have minimal investment in money and time. Therefore, the only two things you'll need to buy for phase one are a TV simulator and a transmitter. So let's look into the
 simulators first. OK. And to be honest, all I'll refer you to the drone. And it really, to be honest, this is the only simulator I've used. It's graphics are simple. I can play it on my laptop. The quiet tuning process is straightforward and intuitive. Quite tuning was something I wanted to show you in better flight, but unfortunately we can get to that and it's a complex subject and you'll hear it quite a bit so quite to me. Tuning Save That for later is compatible with Linux, Mac and Windows, and the time of this presentation that costs about £16 999, which is about 20 euros. So it's not a big investment, so let's move to the transmitter, we know we want to get an SPV simulator. There are more simulators out there. So look those up, there's liftoff, there's rotor rush, there's a bunch of them. Look them up. Since I don't want to make too many equipment recommendations, I will show you only the transmitter transmitters. I have to give you an idea of what is out there and the transmitter. All these transmitters, as I mentioned before, they all run open source software, namely open T.X, which we briefly discussed. So the first I've shown you this already is my free Sky Q X seven. It's my daily driver as far as transmitters go. Many people would probably say this transmitter is outdated. They're right. It can be extended with external modules. As I showed before, it has built in free sky protocols. I prefer for using this transmitter when I'm flying a quad with at least a three propeller, three inch propeller diameter. So quite this large and larger, and I do that because the stick resolution is higher on this. So the points from here to here are much larger and I get a better resolution. So I like this bigger one for that. Like I said, there's newer, better and more modern options, so you might want to look those up. And next is a pretty good starter, controller or transmitter. It is the jumper t light. It's an inexpensive transmitter that runs on open to. It can b
e extended with external modules and comes shipped with multi protocol functionality. You can use this single controller for buying and flight quads. A bonafide Quad is if you buy a Quad, it comes prebuilt and you can just bind your controller to it. At the time of this presentation, that costs about 90 euros and it's small fits in your hands kind of like a Xbox controller style feels like an Xbox controller. And the last video I'll be showing you is the beta of Peavey Light Radio three. It costs around 60 euros. This is actually not the three. This is the two. You don't want to buy this one. It's not fully featured. The other one has the three. It's a decent transmitter for its price. Has a small form factor, but however, no screen. And as I said, I have the older version. So if you want to spend a little less money, you can probably get the the light radio to or at least look into it. So let's go to phase three or sorry, phase two, phase three, we're not there yet. And we're going to add to our shopping cart a tiny woop woop is a drone like this and we will be adding P.V. goggles. This where it gets exciting. So we've been practicing in the simulator. We can keep our card in the air and our crashing is often flying these things is not easy. It takes a lot of practice. Let's expand our equipment and get two more items. So in my own personal experience, it's better to start with a small, small quad with like a tiny woop because you will crash and crash and crash and crash and crash and crash and crash and crashing is part a big part of F5. That's why starting out in a simulator will save you a lot of money. Do you practice in the simulator? It doesn't cost anything to crash when you crash in the real world. It costs money. So for safety and financial reasons, I recommend starting with a tiny group. If you run into someone's face with a tiny hoop, you will not mangle their face. If you run into someone's face. With this, you will mangle their face. So don't do that a
nd don't fly those indoors. Tiny loops are small and light. They're normally flown indoors, which we will do later. They are called tiny loops because of the prop guards. These are called woops little prop guards. If you run into somebody, you know, the worst thing you can do is get stuck in someone's hair. And that's a bummer. I've had that happen a couple of times, so well, not for me, but for the person who I ran into. So as stated before they are, this is my personal opinion regarding what quite to buy. So take it with a grain of salt. Do your own research. So let's look at a couple tiny loops in my collection. You see the video here on the left is from a video I filmed with an SPV tiny loop, namely this modular light six HD. It has a high definition camera installed on it. I even used this. Yeah, I used this little drone to film some of the scenes you saw there. It's very, very small and can get in very, very tight places. And it has an excellent camera and it's up to 10 deep, you know, small little drone. Very nice single shot for the folks out there in internet land. Very nice camera. Next, we have the modular light or sorry, the modular six. The mobile six is a little well, it's exactly the same as the HD, except it doesn't have an HD camera. So it's where the regular camera that can't take cool video footage. By the way, in this HD camera, there is a mini SD card. I'll show it here. There's a mini SD card that saves your video footage, so you're seeing an MPV feed in your goggles. And this thing will save your high definition video footage in here. And then the last one, which we will fly around today around the studio is this little mop light six. It is very light. Flies for a long time. It's really fast, and it's a lot of fun to fly. You can do some pretty cool acrobatic stuff with it, and you can get on people's nerves, which I do all the time. So, OK, let's get into the exciting stuff. FP Goggles. This is where the fun starts. It is also possible to buy
 goggles and practice in a simulator, since a decent set of goggles will have an HDMI input. So you can actually use these to hook to your computer and use it as a spare monitor. I do this when I'm riding in a train and I don't want people to see what I'm doing in my computer. I just put on goggles and shut the the the flap. What do you call that thing? The thing in the front? Anyway, I close my my laptop and I see my screen and people look at me like, I'm a freak, but you know, who cares? That you kind of look like you're in Toronto, so, you know, if I can. So before discussing the virtues of goggles, trying them on and posing for the cover of Daft Punk magazine, a magazine I do want to pose for at some point in my life, we will first need to discuss the two video signal types of F5. And these are namely analog and digital. OK. Depending on what type of requirements you have, these video signal types can influence the goggles you buy. So pay attention here, and this will be a money issue for some of you. Here's some some DVR footage from a flight I did, and this is analog VIDEO And it is exactly that analog. So for those of you as old as me, you will remember back in the good old days, the old analog TV transmissions of the last century. It looks like that. And that's pretty much the same technology. There are advantages and disadvantages to analog video system. The advantages are equipment compatibility, so equipment for analog systems is open and Inter compatible Inter compatible. It's not locked to any specific vendor. This means that the video transmitters and receivers are not limited by proprietary protocols, which is a definite plus. It has low latency. Latency means that the time it takes to get from the camera, your feed to your goggles is very low and latency. So the transmission is faster, which means you can react more quickly. For some people, this kind of subjective. Some people say there's a big difference between digital and analog. It depends who y
ou're talking to. It is low cost analog equipment is much more inexpensive than digital. It uses low bandwidth and the radio spectrum, which means you can fly with more people so you can fly with your friends so they can use their analog equipment and you're not going to blast the whole bandwidth and screw everyone over. So something to think about. OK, so let's talk about the disadvantages and really the biggest disadvantage, as you saw, is the video clarity. It's low. Some people would say the security is an issue because it is not encrypted, and anyone can view that. I don't really see that as an issue, especially if you're flying with the Quad. I suppose you could probably run it through some kind of encryption algorithm. I don't know. Maybe look into that for fun. OK, so the the good thing is this analog signal you're seeing looks like crap and you think, like, how do I make a nice video out of it? Well, you strap on an HD camera to the top of the other drone, so you'll see here's my F5 camera here. This little guy, and here is my HD camera, and this is going to take the good stuff and this is going to be just for flying. So the camera here, it's got a little cap on it, you know, very small. OK. That's how we get the cool video footage. So let's get to digital, so some of the advantages to digital, unlike analog, these systems transmit and receive digital signals. So as you can see the video, clear clarity is clearly the biggest advantage of digital signals and of course, the biggest selling point. For example, when flying among trees and small branches, the details make a huge difference and can mean the difference between whether you crash or not. Something I don't do is fly around in the woods like this with an analog system, it's very hard to see those little small branches and they will take you down quick. It's called straggle, so digital SPV disadvantages higher latency, which means the signal you were talking scatter. The signal transmission rate, I gue
ss, is slower, which means you will not be able to react as quickly. I don't see this as a big problem. Some people do. The cost is higher. Digital systems are more expensive than analog and the equipment compatibility. This is the big one for me, which really makes me a big turnoff is digital systems. There is the problem of vendor lock. So if you're going to get locked into a digital system, you are only going to be using DJI, which I don't know that kind of kind of sucks. So. So which goggles do you want to buy? That's up to you. I'm a fan of the analog system, which I think is pretty obvious. However, I do own a shark bite system. This is an analog system, or, I'm sorry, a digital system. I may have to be happy with the fact that it is compatible with analog goggles, so it's kind of a hybrid. It's kind of it is a digital system, but it is. It can be used with analog hardware, which is pretty nice. So I'm just going to show you a couple of things about some of these goggles. This is an east sheen. Even, I think even 300 zero or something like that. It is run by a US battery on the side. It has here. I have a patch antenna and a omnidirectional antenna on the top. So this one is when I place it in the direction of where I am flying. I can get a clear signal. It has a higher decibel TBI on the top. There's a fan to keep it from fogging up. It has high definition, as I said, HDMI input. I can hook this up to my computer uses as an external monitor, I said. As I said, another use which I think is kind of cool and I do it sometimes is to use it as a soldering monitor. You can hook it up to an USB microscope and get in real close. You kind of look like Doc Brown with these things on, you know, they're just cool electron, doc brown, Daft Punk, you know the cool stuff. Here are my fat shark photos. They're a little older. They do have the same features as this set of goggles. I made some external mods, a lot of 3D printing you can see here. Here's a power switch I have, 
which has a nice little beeps too, which is kind of cool. The as I said, this module, this digital module on the front can be removed. Overall, it's a very nice system. I'm very happy with it. So if you want to look into good goggles, kind of like the cream and de la creme of goggles is, I would say, the fat shark. They're also pretty established and well known in the FPP world. You look in the goggles, you'll be seeing the name Fat Shark quite a bit. OK, so let's go to phase three. We're going to go back to our shopping cart. So far, we have developed some good piloting skills and our simulator. We've translated those skills into real world flying by flying with our goggles and a tiny move. Now we want to take it to the next step and enter phase three. Since we already have our basic equipment, we can now buy as many quads as we want and expand our fleet. This will largely depend on what type of flying you're interested. So I'm going to go into some of the different types of flying in different types of quads and have here on the table. For this phase, we will be briefly covering different flying styles, the classes of quads, et cetera. So you kind of have a good or a better idea of what kind of quads are out there and maybe see a style of flying, which you can say, Oh, I could see myself doing that. So just remember the words and yeah, it's all good. So we're going to get into freestyle freestyle. It is a generic term which can include many other styles of flying. However, in order to keep things simple. We will glob it into the catch all term freestyle, so freestyle is arguably the most action packed style of flying in the world as comparison. It's similar to the world of freestyle skateboarding. I see it as pretty much the same thing as people get together. They they do tricks. And you know, in a nutshell, the flying style involves flying in and around objects through tight spaces and openings. Sharp turns near misses while trying to pull off a couple of tricks 
like great at the last second and freestyle quads needs to take a lot of beating. That is why, because you'll be crashing like crazy. That is why it is the most robust compared to the other classes. A freestyle quad can come in many shapes and sizes. I'll start from the smallest to largest. I'll just start at around this one here. You could call this freestyle quad. This one's kind of cute. It looks like a flying helmet. I don't know. Lord Helmet with propellers from Space Balls, it is. It's one s on a warrant runs on one. Its battery will move up the ladder a little bit and graduate to a three inch freestyle quad. As I said, these are very robust. You can see this is made of carbon fiber. I have my own tbou 3D printed parts on this some camera holders. This one's pretty small. It's a three inch quad and they're called three inch in five inch and has to do with the diameter of the propellers. So that's three inches across. And here is a bigger call, this is actually called a mini quad, because back in the day, these things were much bigger. And when they got him this this size, they said, Hey, this freaking small, you know, so many. Quite so. This is a freestyle mini quad. It has a lot of custom configurations, some camera mounts. I designed myself in small space, small space. Check it out. Love it. Great CAD program. I can always plug safe space. Love that program. A I have a my own custom antenna mounts. And yes, these are have larger props. Three Blade props you can get to read blade props. The common usage, or the common configuration, is a three depth three blade prop. Here are some of the antennas that we talked about earlier. Yes, this is a six squad. We'll talk about batteries in a second. OK. So those are some just a general introduction to Freestyle Quad. Next, we can talk about long range, long range is a hell of a lot of fun and they just go long range. They fly really, really, really far. So how far along range can fly really depends on who you're talki
ng to and what type of Quad you're referring to. And since this can sometimes be debatable, what constitutes a long range Quad? I'll just say it. It's kind of like a Quad that can fly above average distances while taking into account its size, performance and battery, which is a very convoluted saying of I don't fucking know. So no, actually, there are some things that these things can go pretty far. They can go anywhere from one to 10 to more kilometers, depending on. Depending on some of the components you build into them, long range flights are generally smoother. They have a feel of cruising without any tricks or rolls. You're just going to kind of fly and cruise and long range quads are usually equipped with a GPS module. You can see in this flight and you can check out those GPS coordinates if you want. That's not gonna bother me. It features a GPS module was built into this court. I built it myself. I'll show you in a second. It features return to home functionality. This means that if the Quad loses signal from the transmitter, it will turn around and fly back to its point of origin. So you see a little arrow, and that points to where I am. I have two long range quads. Ironically, both of these were designed by David Clevedon, otherwise known as Dave C, and I'll get into this one first. This is a micro long range. It is very light. Here's the GPS module here on the back F5 camera in the front, and I've gotten this quite out pretty far. I built in a new vortex, which is the video transmitter, and it can get. I won't say illegal amounts of power because I wouldn't do that, but this thing can get out pretty far. Here's the GPS module on the back. A longer antenna. I'll get into this camera in a second. This camera's pretty cool. And here is the nano long range. This is a 3D printed frame. I built this one from scratch. I also made a build video about this on my YouTube channel. So if you want to check that out, learn how to build this guy. It's a lot of fun. He
re's a GPS module. It's run on a single 18 650 battery has three inch propellers. This thing is, I think it's pretty amazing. Not because I designed it or did it. I just built it. The engineering behind this is very interesting. It's very, very light. Very interesting. OK, so we're going to have to move along here a little bit, so cinematic style cards, I'll just show you that real quick. This is a cinematic style quad. It is used for getting tight and close up to people. You can see it also carries its camera here. Cinematic style to think cinema. Think movies. That's a better F5. 85. And I used it to film this music video here. You can see I'm flying through an office space down corridors. It's very nimble and very maneuverable, flying down the stairwell there. And as I said, you can fly very close to people because it has prop guards or woops. OK, let's move on. OK, so the and all three phases we talked about core equipment, so here's some other stuff you can get. I'm going to brush this really, really quick because we're running out of time here. So batteries, batteries, they're lithium polymer, they're dangerous. So you need to learn about how they work. They don't work like your phone. You don't just plug them in and they work well. Your phone can be dangerous to think of the Samsung seven. I think it was. That was a lot of fun. They can be dangerous. That's why I store them in an ammunition case, as you see here. There are no bullets in this. There are batteries because they can go up in flame and they can take you with them. So keep those in mind. Keep that in mind when you're working with lithium polymer batteries, cameras, this is a stripped down naked GoPro. I took a GoPro apart, placed it. In this case, it stripped down to only what is needed for it to function. Look it up a naked GoPro running out of time here, so I got to move. There's some other cameras on there, so check them out tools. I have an awesome tool kit that I wanted to get into because I c
ould talk about tools all day long. And here's my tool kit antennas, hex drivers, different camera mounts, modules, multi meter antennas, et cetera. So keep a tool kit with you. This is my field tool kit. I use it all the time in the field. I make repairs in the field. A soldering iron is in there, OK, and 3D printing, as you saw most of the cards here and they are used with 3D printing. They have 3D printed components on them. So to round out this presentation, we will do a short test flight around the studio to make sure you get a feel of what it's like to sit in the cockpit of real life TV drone. Let's do that. Hopefully, this live demo will work. I'm going to plug in here. I'm going to be using the jumper light. Turn it on. OK. Turn on my goggles. Turn on the drone so you can get a video feed. See what I'm seeing and this is an analog system. So if if you have epileptic epileptic issues, this could flash a lot. So if you have a problem with flashing lights, please look the other way. Don't stare into the light. OK, let's do it. I'm not warm, so we'll see how this works out. Oh, bad start. Very bad start and too excited. I've had enough booze yet I don't fly and drink. OK, here we go. Here we go. Let's take it easy. Say hi people. Let's go out. Let's fly around the hackerspace, folks. Here we are. So as I said before, flying is very, very immersive. I feel like a little man sitting in the front in the little cockpit. You know, a little tiny guy lets fly around the corner. I made it. Oh, no. Crashed and burned. Hopefully someone saw it, and let's see, I got turn around and I can probably see myself better. There we go. I see a little movement. I don't know if you see anything. Here we go. Here we go. We're back on, we're back on track and I go back. I'm going to risk it. You only live once and I'm saying, OK, I got to do some tricks here. You know, I'm going to crash, so I might as well crash in style. Well, let's call the roll, folks. That's how you do it. 2001. 
2001. 20 21, 2001. I've been listening to old rap albums recently. Sorry about that. Here we go. I don't want getting anyone's hair. Yes. As you see, this is really easy to get into. You'll be getting. You'll irritate the shit out of people with these little things. After a while, they'll be like, Hey, that's really cool. And then you're flying to their hair and then they won't like it anymore. No, they won't like you for a while because it takes a long time to get out of the hair. Those little does little motors when they get cotton hair. It's bad news. It's bad news bears. Oh, he crashes and he burns slow around here. How much time I got, folks. We're doing OK. Still one minute. You just. Finally, Chris. All right, so you see those are those those numbers and everything, that's the onscreen display and that's being transmitted from the flight controller. So I can configure that in beta flight. So if I want to know a different metric. There we go. Made it. If I want to know a different metric, I can figure that I can put it in my On-Screen display and see it posted there. Let's go fast. Woo, let's go faster. Oh, crashed and burned. OK, I think I think I'm I think I'm done. So like I said, you're going to crash a hell of a lot. It's something you get used to. These things can crash a lot. So imagine this. This is a small version. Imagine flying one. Hold on. I'll turn on the beaver. I can. Is it beeping? Can you find it? OK, that's something that's that's something you can configure. You can make a beep. So imagine flying that little card and and translate it to a big s. Quite like this one, this five inch it'll go maybe 200 kilometers an hour flying on the seat of your pants. You want to fly this around people. If you run into someone, you're going to have a bad day and they're going to have a worse day. So don't do that. So that's about it. You can download the slides from my presentation on my at the following URL from my website. If you have found something I sa
id to be an error in my presentation, please let me know. As you mentioned, Mitch Alcance has this by enlightened friend Carson. But does your immediate opponents, if you can get it out, is dangerous, touted as a positive on a positive, your I.D. loiter? Yeah, I'm sorry. I had to say that in German for the folks, you're standing here. Not that they don't understand me, you know? I don't know. Stay healthy, happy, and I am looking forward to your questions. Thank you very much. This is so nice, thank you so much. It's nice to see our little village of, you know, is really just a village in the transcode of a big city and I know all the spots. All right. So there are lots of questions to 3D printing and using that with with drones. What materials are suitable for 3D printing frames and are de sturdy enough? That's a good question, and it really depends on what card you're making. This, for example, was printed in play, but since it's a long range drone, I'm not going to do crazy tricks with it. I'm going to be a little more careful. I have crash with this one. You can do it with play, but you're not going to be printing off a frame for a drone like this or of this size. You could, but it probably wouldn't last very long. Play abs. What's a harder one? Maybe you'll be using a lot of TPU because TPU is soft for different mounts and padding style components. So, yeah, that's a good question. Yeah, nice. How often do you get motion sickness flying one of the few drones? Yes, very good question. I'll just put it this way. I have a tendency to get motion sickness generally when I'm in a car. And the first time I flew with goggles, I felt that way. Maybe the first 20 seconds and something in my brain clicked and told me it was OK. And after the first flight, I was really OK. I don't really have that many problems and I am more prone to motion sickness. So yeah, that is a good question. Can I? I can hear the last drone beeping in the couches. Let me turn it off. No, no. I thi
nk it's the time out thing. All right. Where to look for other people flying MPV in Germany? Communities online hubs. Forums, mature recommend. There are lots of online hubs. One forum that I visit quite often is called into FP Viacom. There are German people in Germany. I live in Germany, so that applies to me. But there are people from all over the world on that forum. Now, with problems with corona, there used to be more SPV meet ups. There are sometimes you can look into tiny woop races. You can race these things around through obstacle courses. There are events and things going on. The SPV community is rather small. It's not a big community. So, yeah, that's a good question. But there are plenty of resources online and meetings and people. All right. And what about the legal side, about long range and. Doing that in Germany or even the U. Well, there are requirements and things you should do in Germany, you're going to have to go to the little fart button disarmed and you can take a while. Maybe a year ago, they offered a free course to be licensed. There are three different licenses there, at least four in this hobby. The A1, the A2 and the A3. I have the A1 in the A2. I'm sorry. I have the A1 and the A3. I'm currently taking the A2. The good thing about this is every country has its own, I guess you could say, organization, which takes care of those or regulates those laws. You have to look in for your specific country. The good thing in the EU is all these drone licenses are standardized. So if you get A1 two or three, you can fly anywhere in the U.S. I'm only speaking for EU. So. Good question. Yeah, nice. And does anybody in the FP community use Cinco Stereo or dual camera setups in combination with the headsets? Or is that too intense? Oh, like a 3D? Yeah. Yes. Actually, that is interesting. I've never tried it. I would like to. There was a time, maybe, maybe four or five years ago. Maybe now it was longer. Her father back where you could do that, there i
s a setup where you can transmit 3-D. So yes, that is possible. It's not very popular. Not anymore. And there were some people doing that. You can probably find a bunch of videos on YouTube about that. They're probably a little older. But yeah, good question. And I haven't done it myself. I would love to. That's something that's definitely on my bucket list. Good question. All right. And then another regulatory thing. Does a ham radio license help in SPV, for example, for stronger video signal? Yes, and it depends on the band and it depends on your class of license, and it depends on what country you're living in. So, yes, with the five point eight megahertz, there are specific channels. I think it was like five point nine or there's a couple which depending on the flight control or the vortex, which are not in use, there's specified as ham radio channels. And if you are licensed as a ham radio operator, you can. I think you can get up to five watts or something like that. It's quite don't quote me on this. I'm just pulling this out of my ass right now as a specific question. But yes, you do have some advantages. All right. That's very interesting. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you. And yeah, happy New Year. See you next year. Hopefully live in person. Thank you very much. Thank you. Our next talk on chaos on TV will be better, and he will talk about Electro. Who? Who's a cabinet best of Linda. What may happen if one applies dementia? If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid to electricity installations? All right, that sounds interesting. See you then.